Apparatus for playing race games



Oct. 2 1923. l1,469,657

. J. c. P. MAGwooD APPARATUS FOR PLAYING RACE GAMES Filed June 18, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 JOHN cARLIsLnroivrEsor 'Mnewon"or rnnongjplqqrgiiini Patentedct. 2, :$23.1

VApplication led .Tune 18,

i To all whom t'mag/oo'ncerm 'p BeYAY -known that 1, JOHNCAniJIsLE;

'PoMnRoYf MAGWo0n, student, a subjectief the-King 4ot Great Britain,v residing f at 145 Adelaide,Road,V Hampstead, London, Englandi havefinvented: certain `new an'd useful Improvements injApparatus for Playll ing :Race Games, of which the following is a specification.vv

This invention refers to apparatus for playingaraee game ,wherein toy figures or models of horses or other things (allioi which 'for `Convenience,l are hereinafter] referred --tox as tlel Apiecesn)are causedto travel from end to endlof al'substantially` straight feourse', ymeans being provided `V to vary the; order of finishing lvaoeording-ftoj aspossible'the' progress of?4 an actualrace,"V

chance.V

An object of this invention'lis :to` repro-V duce mechanically'qin as lifef'like armanner and afurther objeotislto introduce a Ineehanicalchanoe elementfor elements the fna-` 'g ture and-l operation .of which are suchasj to presentl a continually changing combination suohwis'e that the 'playerSeannQt beeomej Vention, therefore', comprises in combination l'with a suitable board or platform forming` Vthe. course :for the f pieoesfinea-nsV for ilu- .v .parting movement tojthe latter,and1me-i ehanieally operated v means which t1nayf r VAinvare, before, and -inmany eases even'jdurfV k111g; Vthe earlier part of a race, of the Winning pleee' apparatus according toV the'. present V1n- L, m ay .not,aeeording` to Lella-nee, ,interruptV -:Fi g. 2 a side View Fig. 3 is av side vierty fon anenlarg-edsale of adetail, .viz.. endless band hereinafter'described.V

Fig. 5'is anendview of Asuch Carrier.

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tudinal section and anfenol View of an. alter:

piece,,,in this oaseljfour.; VUnder eachslot'B is-Iiiountedf a; screw-7021" threaded; spin'dleC;A rotatable in be'aring WheelsfiGi. "One spindleprojects throughf i' I` j:

a crank Egbyjmeansoflwhihisaidspindles j spindles, byfvVindi'ng* ona5mandril,A thepre-r determinedlength of Wire in t'hefiform goffa, i'

' and' the ends Q 'oftheeoiltlienqdrawn, ap art;

The ends..m ay i then-'be soldered j to the Aspindle ifde'sired.y

of. its periphery, and.y theseteethA areadapt'eil Whiohfmayf Vloe' adjustable) iiattaehed`-ptoxthe irregular intervals; and'jftlie said re'o'es's'esg l A Carrier Nfpmvia aan, pins' N1' Sfar lpsfff 

